A test of an engine for Japan's upcoming Epsilon rocket ended in an explosion on Tuesday (Nov. 26), the second time in less than two years that this engine has met an untimely end during testing.
Engineers at Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center in the southwest of the country were testing the engine for a flagship rocket ... from Tanegashina that the explosion occurred 49 seconds into ...
A rocket manufacturer is to "pause" construction of a spaceport in Sutherland to instead focus its launch efforts in Shetland ...
An explosion occurs during an engine combustion test on a small Epsilon S rocket at JAXA's Noshiro Rocket Testing Center in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, shortly after 9 a.m. on July 14. (Provided by ...
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TOKYO – An explosion occurred Tuesday morning during a ground combustion test involving the second-stage engine of Japan’s new Epsilon S solid-fuel rocket. The incident was caused by abnormalities ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has stopped an engine combustion test for the second stage of the new solid-fuel Epsilon S rocket after a fire broke out at a facility in southwestern ...